Book Deal: QUEER BIRDS
We’re excited to announce that we’ve signed a deal to release Holly Lyn Walrath’s next poetry collection, QUEER BIRDS, in 2027. It’s a broody mix of nostalgia, ennui, and confession that has the call of hard-wrung authenticity. “This collection is a bit of a departure for RDSP,” says managing editor Jennifer Barnes. “It’s not strictly horror but there is darkness here and it has undeniable final girl energy of survival that we just couldn’t pass on.”
From the first poem in the collection:
I can’t tell you how it was, not really,
I can only invent this story
of what it meant to grow up
with our wings clipped.
About the Author
Holly Lyn Walrath’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. She is the author of the Elgin Award-winning chapbook Glimmerglass Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a chapbook in Italian, Numinose Lapidi (Kipple Press 2020), and The Smallest of Bones (Clash Books, 2021). She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a freelance editor and editor of Interstellar Flight Magazine. Find her online at www.hlwalrath.com